Check out Sophie Lawson’s Art Soundoff on her website. It’s up there in both video and audio. The card link in the video goes to her Art Soundoff video. You can find the interview videos I made through the card links or through the sidebar pull down menu under “What Interests Me”, in the list for “BW’s Videos”.
A number of the toy reviewers I follow have been dealing with yet another batch of shenanigans from YouTube. This time it involves the Child Online Privacy Protection Act, a law meant to keep data mining from happening to kids using the internet. YouTube was recently fined a bunch of money for violating this act in how it approaches videos for kids and Google, who owns YouTube, has opted to pass the pain on to its creators again like they have before unless it will affect YouTube itself.
Oddly it isn’t animation reviewers I’ve seen discuss this but toy reviewers like Retroblasting, Pixel Dan, and friend of BW TJOmega. Apparently they have to mark their stuff either “for kids” or “not for kids”, and YouTube’s algorithm may still declare them liars because YouTube’s use of AI to wash their hands of a problem is notorious for both happening often and hurting their creators, including the internet celebrities they created, some of which predated Google’s ownership of YouTube and their Partner Program where you could make money from ad revenue, which Google now denies as much of as it can. I speak as a victim of that. Every time I’ve tried to upload an Art Soundoff this month I get a message to go to YouTube’s new Studio page and mark all my videos past and present. YouTube Studio does not run on Vista computers so I need to find an alternative to fix that.
Speaking of Art Soundoff I mentioned in one just last week that older folks still look down on anything animated (comics, cartoons, video games) as immediately being for kids, and that this also includes toys despite many toy reviewers I follow only discussing nostalgic toys or adult collectibles, only occasionally looking at stuff for today’s kids like the Imaginext line. Then I saw the below video by The Mysterious Mr. Enter, an animation reviewer who will also have to jump through this new hoop to continue his show. He goes over some of the problems with YouTube’s new policy and how they’re hurting their own revenue creators (the YouTube video producers) just to cover their own butts–again–when the COPPA violations are their fault.
Kirk’s just making friends everywhere, isn’t he?
Star Trek #15
DC Comics (June, 1985)
“New Frontiers” part 7: “The Beginning Of The End…”
WRITER: Mike W. Barr
PENCILER: Tom Sutton
INKER: Ricardo Villagran
COLORIST: Michele Wolfman
LETTERER: John Costanza
MANAGING EDITOR: Tom Codon
ASSOCIATE EDITOR: Robert Greenberger
EDITORS: Marv Wolfman & Mike W. Barr
I keep missing my anniversaries. This should have been done last week. However, I’ve talked about how this month has been filled with distractions with equipment failures and life issues and all that. You’re tired of hearing it and I’m tired of talking about it so let’s talk about the longest running project I’ve been a part of that didn’t pay me or legally make me stay there. (I’m talking about school, although at times it felt like prison.)
For those who came in late: In 2008 I spent time in the hospital, a situation that would happen again 8 years later but I digress. While home recovering I came across blogs like Comic Coverage, Siskoid’s Blog Of Geekery, Slay Monstrobot Of The Deep, and others. When my comments were almost as long as the articles I decided it best I just start my own blog. 11 years later and I’m still doing it. That’s amazing for me.
At each anniversary (or roughly so since I have a bad habit of forgetting…this year at least I just got the date wrong) I go back through the previous years’ reviews and commentaries to find what I feel is the best stuff I produced that year, the ones that stick with me and may have even been referenced a lot. So if you are new here, I have a few articles you may want to catch up on.
“I shouldn’t have hired J’onn as my contractor.”
Iron Man volume 3 #52
Marvel Comics (May, 2002)
“Jane Doe”
WRITER: Mike Grell
PENCILER: Michael Ryan
INKER: Sean Parsons
COLORIST: Arsla Rozegar
LETTERER: Chris Eliopoulos
ASSISTANT EDITOR: Marc Sumerak
EDITOR: Tom Brevoort
The Clutter Reports (my other site) Atop The Fourth Wall Crisis On Earth Prime Lean Into Artcast Bully Says “Comics Oughta Be Fun” Siskoid’s Blog of Geekery
Cartoon Hero’s Lair SF Debris Four Million Years Later
